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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called on some 70 nations Wednesday to immediately step up data sharing to help border agents thwart would-be foreign fighters from reaching Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State.

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President Barack Obama has officially asked Congress for war authority to fight Islamic State militants, opening a debate on Capitol Hill over the extent of U.S. military involvement in fighting the group Obama says poses a “grave threat” to U.S. national security.

A secretive U.S. government agency has cleared the way for a giant Chinese insurance firm to buy New York’s fabled Waldorf Astoria after a national security review that likely imposed conditions on the purchase.

President Barack Obama says the drone that dropped into the White House grounds on Monday points to a “broader problem” -- balancing security and privacy with recreation and that he’s asked federal agencies to look into the issue.

The CIA’s use of torture failed to gain any intelligence on imminent terrorist threats, didn’t lead to any high-level terrorists  including Osama bin Laden  produced fabricated information and was far more brutal than the agency has portrayed to policymakers and the public...

The Justice Department has delivered hundreds of previously concealed documents to a Chinese firm that President Obama had blocked from buying Oregon wind farms because they are near a sensitive military base.